Ch17 P14

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I’m…a little confused here. How can she be assigned to a volunteer program? Isn’t that something she’d need to sign up for? i mean… it’s right in the name, unless it’s done differently in this place than America?

Some volunteer programs have waiting lists because so many people want to sign up. She could have signed up earlier and only gotten a place now, or it could be Miel’s boss pulling strings to do something… weird. I don’t know if he’d be trying to move Abeille to the new city to get Miel to follow, or separate them so that Miel wouldn’t want to stay where he is.

Can be both. Abeille gets an offer to move as a volunteer to the new city to make both and Miel sign onto the deal, and when the volunteer task reaches completion, Abeille is moved back. Gets Miel where his boss wants him without followup distraction and both Miel and Abeille have only themselves to blame so that this does not result in rebellion, defeating the purpose of the maneuver.

It could be that she is being assigned to assist with a volunteer program in some way, not to be the volunteer herself. For example, being someone who organizes volunteers or assists them in getting started on whatever volunteer work they are to do.

Hmm. Of all the ways I thought this might have gone, I don’t think I was expecting that. I thought Mr. Acier would try to separate them. It looks like it’s more along the lines of, “Well, he won’t go because of her, hmmm? Well let’s remove that obstacle…” [by bringing her along???]

“Volunteer” could refer to something plant related. A volunteer is something that grows on its own without help from a gardener, such as a weed. If the boss man assigned Abeille to this, he could be calling her a weed essentially. I’ll be interested to see the update > u <

This sounds like Boss is trying to take up all her free time so she won’t have any spare to ‘distract’ Miel with. Usually these programs run outside of work hours, so it would be after her shift ends. Work her too hard and for too long, she either won’t have any free time left or the time she does have she’ll be exhausted.

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